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Updated: May 25, 2025
Here also were strange fish, like the eighteen-spined sculpin and the sea-robin, walking over the bottom on three free rays of each of the pectoral fins.
Thus we slid through the velvet night with the Double Cross hanging low, sou'west by south. It must have been about an hour before dawn that a shiver of expectancy thrilled us unanimously. "Did you hear that, sir?" said Captain Triplett in a low tone. "No ... what was it?" "A sea-robin ... we must be near land ... there it is again."
I heard it that time ... the faint, sweet note of the male sea-robin. Shortly afterward we heard the mewing of a sea-puss, evidently chasing the robin. "Sure enough, sir," said Triplett. "It'll be land." Somehow we felt sure of it. In calm elation and tired expectancy we strained our eyes through the slow crescendo of the day's birth.
They unwind their beasts from lamp posts, or the ensnared legs of profane pedestrians, with the stolidity of mandarins manipulating the strings of their kites. Others, more recently reduced to the ranks of Rover's retinue, take their medicine sulkily and fiercely. They play the dog on the end of their line with the pleasure felt by the girl out fishing when she catches a sea-robin on her hook.
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